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Shortly after starting as a writer at '' The New York Times '' in 1972, he was assigned to write the obituary of Architect Louis Kahn , who died suddenly of a heart attack in a bathroom in New York 's Pennsylvania Station . The next year, he was named the paper's architecture critic. Goldberger won the Pulitzer, the highest award given in journalism, in 1984 for his architecture criticism in ''The Times.'' In 1996, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented him with the city’s Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his work on historic preservation. He is the author of the book ''Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York.'' Also, in a May 2005 ''New Yorker'' column, he suggesed that the best solution for rebuilding at Ground Zero would focus on residential use mixed with cultural and memorial elements. A resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Goldberger is married to Susan Solomon and has three sons, Adam, Ben and Alex. He is a graduate of Yale University . REFERENCES Goldberger's personal website bio |
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